“No illness that can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means" – a 12th century physician
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." – Hippocrates (460 – 377 BC)
Medications are not a satisfactory substitute for food, indeed are usually harmful.
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Short-term studies may give rise to false expectations, and that radiological and laboratory values are overemphasized at the expense of long-term outcomes like functional status and death.
[I don't know if he's being sarcastic or not, but I think that's an hilarious "forest / trees" comment. It reminds me of once, while hospitalized, I was given an injection which made my lungs feel paralyzed. In an escalating panic, I gasped desperately to the nurse "I...can't...breathe!" She looked at some monitor above my head and curtly told me, "you're breathing" and walked off!]
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There have been effective treatments rejected in the past solely because they did not conform to mistaken accepted hypotheses.
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It is my belief that a diet high in fresh (i.e. unprocessed, unfrozen and uncanned) vegetables would keep a large majority of people reasonably healthy and without the need for fad diets. The World Health Organization of the UN agrees with this, and maintains that the majority of deaths are from nutrition preventable chronic diseases.
I would suggest that a partial solution to the problem of poor potassium nutrition would be to place a tax on all food that has had potassium or magnesium removed by food processors and completely fund all Medicare, Medicaid, and workman’s compensation for injuries and disease that relate to rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, and high blood pressure. This would also take the onerous tax burden now incurred for them and place it on the shoulders of those who cause the problem.
And this tax burden is not the only burden. Half the bankruptcies in the USA are caused by medical bills.
Achieving this would be much more likely if the money was removed from politics and there were runoff elections. If you click on the logo below [_http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers.php] you can get a free bumper sticker that urges impeachment of the supreme court justices who ruled that corporations can buy elections. [it reads, “CORPORATIONS ARE NOTTHE PEOPLE” No donation is necessary if you enter $0.00.
Michael Jacobson and Kelly Brownell of the Center for Science in the Public Interest have proposed a small tax on soft drinks and candy to finance public nutrition education.
The Health Freedom Foundation is currently attempting to solve the problem by lobbying government legislatures to change the laws and agencies’ organization.
[My personal favorite – LOL] Another idea to help the nutrition of our society by Dan O’Keefe is to require all supermarkets to tell a shopper which brands should not be eaten for each of the degenerative diseases (for instance food containing sulfite not to be eaten by those suffering from beri-beri caused heart disease).
It took 150 years for the medical profession to accept cod liver oil for use against rickets, almost that long to adopt penicillin, and 2500 years to abandon blood letting. Let us hope that we do not have to wait that long before they accept [potassium and magnesium] as essential for health.
